I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

Hope is only the love of life.

One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

There is one thing we know about meaning: that meaning consists in attachment to something bigger than you are.

As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.

Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I had carried on when all I wanted was to be dead. I had stayed alive for other people. I never stayed alive for myself. I cannot begin to describe the intensity of that effort.

A part of my depression lies, I think, in my unanswered question: Where is home? I feel a sense, always, of trying to find my way back to a place that doesn't exist.

Everyone else has a work party, 'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more

Focus on faith in God.

Three’s all you need to change the world. Look at the Bolsheviks, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.

The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions

Neither is detrimental, but the mystical kundalini is a bit more raucous.

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

I'm so spoiled - I must have a Starbucks vanilla latte every day. Otherwise, it's going to be a bad day. I also love Jelly Bellies. But that's bad. Don't tell my mom.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.